July 2009 Archives

Week 120 of mental_floss blogs

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on July 24, 2009 11:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

How Electronic "20 Questions" Games Work - 13 comments (an old repost while I took a week off)
Documentaries I Like: Code Rush - no comments
The Origins of Video Game Character Names - 4 comments
McDonald's Food Created Using CGI - 10 comments
The Late Movies: Stevie Wonder - 4 comments
The One-Man "Rock Band" - 2 comments
Was Moore's Law Inevitable? - no comments (perhaps a little geeky)

Week 119 of mental_floss blogs

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on July 24, 2009 11:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Documentaries I Like: The Fog of War (featuring Robert McNamara) - 6 comments
Richard Feynman Explains Trains - 6 comments
Errol Morris on Robert McNamara - no comments
The Late Movies: More Richard Feynman Explanations - 1 comment
E.O. Wilson - Lord of the Ants - 2 comments
Technical Details of the Disney Monorail - 3 comments

Week 118 of mental_floss blogs

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on July 3, 2009 12:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

V.S. Ramachandran: A Neurological Theory of Artistic Experience - 1 comment
How Cults Rewire the Brain - 10 comments
Science in the Field: Human Migration in the Ancient Southwest - 5 comments
The Late Movies: COSMOS - no comments
Photos: Crystal City Beneath Five Fingers - 11 bizarre comments

Week 117 of mental_floss blogs

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on July 1, 2009 12:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Our First Nerd President? - 5 comments, and widely linked
Let's Hear It for Libraries - 32 comments
How Brain Damage Reveals Brain Function - 4 comments
The Late Movies: Paul Simon - 6 comments
Hummingbirds in Slow Motion - 3 comments
Anthropology Lessons: Endangered Cultures - 8 comments

Week 116 of mental_floss blogs

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on July 1, 2009 12:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Edward Cullens Invade The Sims 3 - 3 comments
New Theories on the Origin of Life - 20 Creationism flamewar comments
Michael Pollan Takes a Plant's-Eye View - no comments
The Late Movies: Card Tricks - 1 comment
Ze Frank on His Internet Projects - 1 comment
Stunning 1000-frames-per-second Slow Motion - 4 comments, and very widely linked

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I'm a writer based in Portland, Oregon. I mostly write for Mental Floss magazine (and their website), though I just had a story on This American Life, and had a cover story a few weeks back in The Portland Mercury. You can follow me on Twitter for occasional jokes and complaints about the weather.

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